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=Welcome to the Thomas Carr College Senior History Wiki!=

This Wiki has been created to facilitate an electronic forum ('blog') for topics under discussion in your HIstory classes this year.

You will be asked to use this Wiki in one of two ways:


 * __Cognitively__**: where you will be asked to respond the course content directly -- for example, your teacher will post a question or comment like "Hitler was evil" or "The 1857 Sepoy Mutiny was an uncalled for act of barbarism" and you will be asked to respond as a history student

__**Metacognitively**__: where you will be asked to respond as 'the observer' of yourself -- for example, you may be asked to reflect on your SAC mark, your learning progress, what you are enjoying or not enjoying, how what you are learning relates to the current political context, etc.

As you will note of the right-hand navigation panel, there is one page per year level. This is the place to start!

**Click on the discussion tab, above, to view a __sample blog__. **

//Marcus Tulius Cicero (106-43 BCE) Writer, politician and great roman orator.//
 * The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.**

//Marcus Tulius Cicero (106-43 BCE) Writer, politician and great roman orator.//
 * Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.**

//Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) British historian and essayist.//
 * The whole past is the procession of the present.**

//Samuel Butler (1612-1680) British poet and satirist.//
 * God cannot alter the past, but historians can.**

//Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) British statesman//
 * History is but a confused heap of facts.**

//George Washington (1732-1799) First President of the USA.//
 * We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.**

**History is written by the victors.** //Winston Churchill//


 * History is fables agreed upon.** //Voltaire//